It’s National Coffee Day and we’re out of the house before 10:00 am on a Saturday for a full day of fun: a fall play date at Cantigny and then two back-to-back kiddo birthday parties. This mama needs coffee. But this mama also needs breakfast. In honor of the unequivocal arrival of fall (it’s not even …
I’ve been on a post-summer fitness reset for three weeks now. I purged my pantry, cleaned out my cabinets, refreshed my refrigerator, and got serious again with another session of FIT4MOM DuPage County Body Back. The program has so many benefits, which you’ve heard me talk about time and time again. But what’s really hitting …
I could eat peanut butter for every meal of every day. On toast, with apples, in smoothies. After dinner, I often eat it straight off of a spoon as my dessert. So here’s a smoothie bowl recipe inspired by my childhood favorite PB & J sandwich (back then, it was on Wonder Bread, of course. …
I’m kind of obsessed with succulents. I love their tiny-ness. Their colors. The endless variety. The way they look all grouped together. So when I had two dozen cupcakes to decorate for my mother-in-law’s birthday, I was inspired. My mother-in-law likes succulents as much as I do, and unlike me, she has a green thumb …
